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The killing /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2047BD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 575.Publication details: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2011]Edition: Blu-ray special edDescription: 1 videodisc (84 min., approximately 67 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781604654653
  • 1604654651
Uniform titles:
  • Killing (Motion picture)
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): White, Lionel. Clean break
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
  • 791.4375 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .K55 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
The killing (1956 ; 84 min.) -- Killer's kiss (1955 ; ca. 67 min.).
Production credits:
  • The killing: director of photography, Lucien Ballard ; film editor, Betty Steinberg ; music composed and conducted by Gerald Fried.
  • Killer's kiss: music, Gerald Fried.
Cast: The Killing: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted DeCorsia, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Timothy Carey, James Edwards.Cast: Killer's kiss: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane (i.e. Chris Chase, voiced by Peggy Lobbin.).Summary: The killing: A group of small-time crooks plan a daring race-track robbery, but their well-laid plans go awry.Summary: Killer's kiss: A boxer in New York protects a nightclub dancer, not knowing that her boss is a gangster.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00216 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050304297

The killing is based on the novel: "Clean Break" by Lionel White.

The killing originally released in 1955 and Killer's kiss in 1956; The killing copyright held by Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation.

Includes booklet (19 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) featuring an essay by film historian Haden Guest and a reprinted interview with actress Marie Windsor.

Special features: new digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; new video interview with producer James B. Harris; excerpted interviews with actor Sterling Hayden from the French television series Cinéma cinémas; new video interview with poet and author Robert Polito about writer Jim Thompson; restored high-definition digital transfer of Stanley Kubrick's 1955 noir feature Killer's kiss; new video appreciation of Killer's kiss featuring film critic Geoffrey O'Brien; trailers.

The killing (1956 ; 84 min.) -- Killer's kiss (1955 ; ca. 67 min.).

Not rated.

Blu-ray; Region A; mono.; aspect ratio 1.66:1; requires Blu-ray player.

English dialogue; optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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